632 DR. O. FINSCH ON A NEW CROWNED PIGEON. [Noy. 16, 
The specimen above described I obtained by chance from a dealer 
in Holland. When at the Gardens of the Zoological Society at 
Amsterdam, Mr. Westerman called my attention to a living specimen 
of Goura, which he believed to be new*, and which proved to be of 
the same species as my specimen. From my description, how- 
ever, this specimen differs in some respects, having the throat and 
the smaller upper wing-coverts also vinaceous purplish brown, and the 
anterior coverts of the secondaries more decidedly whitish and tipped 
with purplish brown ; otherwise the specimens agree in every respect. 
These differences probably depend on age or sex. 
In the living bird the eyes are deep red, the legs and feet red, the 
bill blackish with pale tips. 
This remarkable new Crown-Pigeon is intermediate between the 
two known species. It agrees with G. victorie in size and the colo- 
ration of the underparts, but differs in the composition of the crown- 
feathers, which exactly resemble those of G. coronata. In G, vic- 
torie these feathers are totally different, having a regularly webbed 
triangular disk at the apex, bordered very distinctly at the tip with 
white. G. coronata, of which the Leyden Museum possesses a 
series of nineteen specimens, never has the throat and breast purplish 
brown, but, on the contrary, has the back of this colour. As we 
know from the interesting account of Mr. Mitchell (P. Z.S. 1849, 
p- 169, t. xii.), G. coronata (male) and G. victorie (female) paired 
and produced a hybrid in the Gardens of this Society, which unfor- 
tunately died in a few days. Having regard to this fact we might 
incline to believe this new Goura to be a hybrid; but if this were really 
the case, the formation and composition of the crown-feathers would 
no doubt prove to be intermediate between those of the two parents. 
This is not the case in my specimen, which, in regard to the crest, 
agrees throughout with G. coronata; and so I cannot believe it to be 
a hybrid. I may remark that G. coronata shows great variation in 
colour according to its localities. Specimens from Sorong, on the 
west coast of New Guinea, opposite the island Salawatti, have the 
sides of head and nearly the whole of the under surface black ; and 
this is also the case in specimens from the island of Waigiou 
(G. coronata minor, Schleg.) and from Mysol (‘abdomen et bas- 
ventre noir,” Schlegel). But as between these black-varied speci- 
mens and those in the ordinary dress, there are many intermediate 
forms, and as, on the other hand, both forms occur in the same 
locality, I do not venture to consider the black-bellied form a distinct 
species. 
Following the wishes of my esteemed friend Mr. Westerman, who 
wishes to express the feelings of thanks of himself and of the Royal 
Zoological Society of Amsterdam, I have the pleasure of naming this 
new species after Mr. C. Scheepmaker, of Soerabaya, who has pre- 
sented to the Society many rare animais, and to whom also belongs the 
credit of having sent home the first specimens of this interesting new 
Goura. 
Although the exact localities of my specimen and of that in the 
* See notice of the same bird by Mr. Selater, P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 380. 
